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Google Reports Strong Profit, Says It's 'Rethinking Everything' Around Machine Learning

posted by janrinok on Sunday October 25 2015, @12:33PM   
from the ker-ching! dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

It's already sorting your email and translating your voice searches, and machine learning will play a bigger role in Google's services moving forward.

Google's parent company, Alphabet, reported its quarterly financial results Thursday, with revenue and profit both up from a year earlier. New Google CEO Sundar Pichai took part in his first earnings call, and in between discussing the numbers he revealed how important Google thinks machine learning is to its future.

"Machine learning is a core, transformative way by which we're rethinking everything we're doing," he said.

It just better not take the form of a talking paperclip...

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• So this is how skynet begins So this is how skynet begins (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2015, @04:55PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2015, @04:55PM (#254373)

  So this is how skynet begins

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• Re:So this is how skynet begins (Score: 2) by ticho on Sunday October 25 2015, @06:25PM

  by ticho (89) on Sunday October 25 2015, @06:25PM (#254396) Homepage Journal

  Indeed. No ZeiraCorp, no chess-playing Turk, no Cyberdyne. Google is where it starts.

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• Re:So this is how skynet begins (Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Sunday October 25 2015, @07:37PM

  by Hyperturtle (2824) on Sunday October 25 2015, @07:37PM (#254412)

  I figure someone will get sick of it all and do something untoward. Perhaps cut cables like the guy on the west coast, or maybe the uprising of a Luddite subculture.

  The FBI chief already said that crooks are more brazen because the media has dared to show police in an unflattering light.

  No, there are more cameras around making everyone look like criminals, both the crooks be mentions and the crooks he is defending. Once these people start getting precogged with deep AI learning [personalized advertisements seem like they are built more on my previous checkout experiences] there will be those that figure they may as well cause a scene because they are going to get it sooner or later anyway.

  As first they'll go for the ones with nothing, and I won't do anything because I have something to lose.

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• Re:So this is how skynet begins (Score: 2) by TheB on Monday October 26 2015, @06:24AM

  by TheB (1538) on Monday October 26 2015, @06:24AM (#254547)

  Didn't they make a movie about this...

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/ [imdb.com]

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